A fifth of Louisiana's children live in poverty, according to the Annie E. Casey Foundation. That could jump to a third.

A new partnership led by Memphis Mayor Paul Young aims to help Memphians impacted by the lapse in SNAP funding.

In a lengthy memo, Bill Gates argued that while it's important to keep "backing" climate breakthroughs, it shouldn't be at the expense of programs that support health and development.

Many hard-right members of Congress are pursuing Lost Cause mythology – central to Trump’s movement – and neo-Confederate ...

Medicaid expansion is associated with improvements in 5-year cause-specific survival and overall survival in cancer patients.

Social stratification is a critical area of sociological research that examines the hierarchical arrangement of individuals ...

For decades, a job has been seen as the key to escaping poverty. A major new study turns the question on its head: What if ...